Lupe Carrasco
When I first met Lupe Carrasco she seemed like a reasonably intelligent individual. She’s college educated I presume since she’s a school teacher for LAUSD. That’s why I’m astonished – no, I’m shocked, shocked – that she made factual errors and omissions of logically relevant facts in the following Facebook posting indicative of somebody who can’t comprehend what they read:
8/29/16 Facebook - Lupe Carrasco
39 mins · Los Angeles ·
Today marks one year since I was blessed with the opportunity to be a co-emcee of the 45th National Chicano Moratorium. It was a powerful event after months of meetings and collaborating with organizations that believe in self-determination and the end of imperialism. The rally reinvigorated many of the members of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee to the point that we were ready to meet immediately to debrief and begin the planning of the 46th NCM. We envisioned reaching out to bring back participants who have historically been a part of the NCM but for some reason have stepped away AND to invite the younger generation to be a part of the legacy of the NCM. The history of Chican@ people belongs to them/us which is why many of us are fighting to get Ethnic Studies and Raza Studies in schools.
This year I was not a member of NCMC and neither are many others who selflessly served last year. You have to think about the fact that many of us who do movement work are volunteers; we volunteer out time, our labor, our intellectual property, our families, our friends, and we do not get paid, in fact we donate funds all the time.
When the debrief meeting occurred last year shortly after the successful event, many comrades within the committee, right in the meeting room where meetings were always held at Ruben Salazar Park, WERE SERVED WITH COURT DOCUMENTS STATING THAT THEY WERE BEING SUED FOR $25,000 each.
Now does it make sense for members of a committee promoting self-determination to be sued by another member in the same exact court system we know is used to oppress our people? Does it make sense that this NCMC member continued on this year as a committee member and organized the NCM March and rally? The case is public and you are free to search the name Jan B. Tucker in the Los Angeles court database. It may very well be that by me sharing this public information I may ending being one of the Does 1-50 listed on the court documents.
In solidarity with the NCMC committee members who have been served I chose not to participate in the March and rally that was held yesterday and will refrain from doing so until the persons who have allowed a mockery of the NCM are no longer major participants of the NCMC.
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“WERE SERVED WITH COURT DOCUMENTS STATING THAT THEY WERE BEING SUED FOR $25,000 each”-presumably, Lupe bothered to read the court documents before making this statement; if she just took that assertion on faith from the people being sued then she is dumber than dirt. It is not accurate to say they are being sued for $25,000 each. They are being sued for a lot more than $25,000 each. If she can read at even a high school level—which somebody who teaches in LAUSD presumably is capable of, she would know that because it’s in plain language, not fluent legaleze.
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Jesse Hurtado
“Now does it make sense for members of a committee promoting self-determination to be sued by another member in the same exact court system we know is used to oppress our people?”- If I called up the Los Angeles Unified School District and told the personnel department that they should fire Lupe Carrasco because she’s an imbecile, she would sue me in a heart beat….and justifiably so. I’m self employed, my clients are my employers. If Lupe read the lawsuit then she knows that Jesse Hurtado called one of my clients (and a lot of other people all over the United States) in Northern California and told him that I was supposedly a government informer. None of the defendants have ever actually denied that this happened.
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“In solidarity with the NCMC committee members”-that puts her in solidarity with her friend Douglas Paul Ruiz and others that are stone cold anti-Semites. Ruiz wrote in an email…and boasted in his answer to the lawsuit that he did so: “The so-called leaders of this committee have allowed a Jew to come in and break up any bit of comradery within the movimiento, and instead of settling the strife…” Two of the people who received it made half-hearted efforts to distance themselves from it on the grounds that it wasn’t a good idea to use anti-Semitism as it could be counter-productive. Lupe did not then and has never since distanced herself from this anti-Semitic outburst. So, as a Jew am I supposed to roll over and take this insult to myself and to the memory of Sephardic Jew Gustav Montag who gave his life for La Causa at an NCMC event? Very convenient that Lupe didn’t mention that part of the lawsuit.
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L-R: Jan B. Tucker, Guillermo Suarez, Carlos Callejo, with Black Panther Roland Freeman
Lupe’s close friend and comrade Carlos Callejo accused me at an NCMC meeting, behind my back of having sued LULAC—the League of United Latin American Citizens—and of having cost LULAC in that lawsuit “$10,000.” That was a complete, total, and utter fabrication which suggests that professionally I engaged in a malicious prosecution, something that could cost me my private investigator license. I met with Carlos and offered him a way out of the lawsuit; it required him to either name whoever told him the purported facts or to state under oath that he did not know who told him. He declined to do so which is why he’s still in the lawsuit.
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Another convenient little problem for Lupe is her own personal dishonesty. She, or at least somebody using her name and calling from her telephone number, called L.A. County Parks & Recreation and attempted to cancel and re-schedule an official NCMC meeting at Salazar Park without any legal authority to do so, claiming to be a legitimate representative of the NCMC. Conveniently she doesn’t mention her own role in these shenanigans….probably because she’s so inept that it didn’t occur to her that when somebody does that with a government agency it is documented and is not a private record.
So Lupe, kish meer in mein Judio tuchos.
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